Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching
Vol 3, No 2 (2015)

A STUDY OF CODE-SWITCHING USED BY AN ENGLISH TEACHER IN TEENAGERS’ EFL CLASS

Gloria Hede (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Josefa J. Mardijono (English Department, Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Jan 2016

Abstract

This study is aimed to analyze the types of code-switching used by the teacher and under what circumstances the switching occur to identify its function. Using qualitative approach, the writer did this study based on code-switching theory of Wardhaugh (2006) and classroom interaction of Walsh (2011). The findings revealed that the teacher used both types of code-switching, intra-sentential and inter-sentential switching. The function of the code-switching identified through the four features of classroom interaction were control of interaction to control the participation, content, procedure of the lesson; speech modification to clarify meaning, to ensure the students’ understanding; elicitation technique to elicit response for checking comprehension; repair to correct error directly or get the students to correct the errors. From this study, it could be concluded that the teacher used code-switching to make the learning process clearer, so the students would not get confused and would not have misunderstanding in the classroom.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sastra-inggris

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Kata Kita is a journal dedicated to the publication of students research in the areas of literature, language, and teaching. In the study of language, it covers issues in applied linguistics such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, sylistics, corpus ...